Once you have streamlined and moved most of your household tasks to large chunks of time in your calendar, you can now start to use 5 minute snippets of time to knock off some of the repetitive routine tasks on your list. This opens up more valuable chunks of time to get done bigger - and more valuable - projects.

I know it sounds kind of counterintuitive, but if you are always doing little tasks here and there, you never feel done. If you have a 4-hour time block set aside to do those tasks and can knock 30 minutes off during the week through six 5-minute chunks, you feel accomplished and organized!

Here are twenty tasks I do in 5-minute pockets of time to get you started thinking about what your twenty tasks will be:

Start a load of laundry

Empty the dishwasher

Fold a load of laundry

Clean off the kitchen counter

Do the dishes

Clean out a shelf in the pantry

Empty all the trash cans

Pick up toys in the family room

Collect all the towels and start the laundry

Vacuum a room

Delete email and voicemail from your phone

Change your furnace filter

Take items up or downstairs

Go through your mail and open it all

Write a thank you note

Book a doctor appointment

Refill soap dispensers

Clean out 1 drawer

Shred paper

Put 10 things away

Use those minutes you spend talking on the phone or waiting for people knocking off your repetitive tasks!

All work is NOT created equal. Before you listen to the podcast this week, make a giant list of all the tasks you want and need to get done. Then listen in to discover how to re-organize your to-do list to get the most done.

There are 4 kinds of tasks that end up on my to-do list. Here is a brief synopsis of each one:

1. Ideas - Oh boy, do I have a BUNCH of ideas! Instead of putting my ideas on my to-do list, I jot the idea on a scrap of paper and toss it into my Sunday Basket. Then every 2-3 weeks, I read through my ideas and 80% end up getting tossed in the garbage.

2. Repetitive tasks I can be easily distracted from while doing them - Laundry, dishes, bill paying, cooking, grocery shopping, yard work, etc. These never-ending repetitive tasks can easily be done while listening to a podcast or beside my husband or kids while chatting with them. I save these tasks for Sundays and evenings when the family is home.

3. Focused work - These are the big things on your to-do list that would make a difference in your home, family, or career, but they require silence and focused work to get them done. Often, these are the items that move from list to list because we don't have the time to do them. NEWS FLASH, the time is never going to magically appear. Sorry.

To change your life and get big things done takes prioritization and time. Start by finding 30 minutes a day to put toward your focused work. Just ONE goal. Then work your way up to 2-4 hours a day. This is NOT easy, but SO worth it! It will feel weird pulling that time from other areas, but once you accomplish one goal you will be hooked!

4. Thinking time - This is not a to-do on your list, but I find if I do not have any time for my mind to wander - while I am driving, walking the dog, or doing the dishes - I get cranky. I need time to think and dream about possibilities and solutions. I am an entrepreneurial creative type and we need lots of time to think. You might need some planned thinking time, too!

Since I have published books with traditional publishing houses, as online eBooks, and now self published, I am regularly asked how I did it and how others can do it, too.

On the podcast, I dive deep into my story chronicling through how each book came to be, how many copies have sold, and how/why each book was published the way it was.

12 days after publishing The Mindset of Organization - Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time, it has been downloaded 6,500 times for free and sold over 1,000 copies for a total of 7,500 distributions.

There have been 59 reviews and I know that those reviews have pushed, and continue to push, The Mindset of Organization - Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time to be the #1 Best Seller in 2 categories: Self Help - Midlife and How To & Home Improvements - Do It Yourself.

I am blown away by the success of this launch and want to thank YOU for downloading, reading, and sharing! My hearts desire is for every woman to know that she CAN get organized and we are here to help!